Lightning Made of Owls – I made a bunch of comics for this, but I have put it on hold for the moment. I really need to get back to this at some point.

The Ulangar – It’s an abandoned project, but I still haven’t finished publishing it on the web. It’s only up to Book III, when there’s still Book IV, the start of Book V, and the notes for the test of the text.

unarq – project to have a single tool be able to unarchive / uncompress all the really obscure file types out there. It’s on indefinite hold.

The El Popo Build System – an attempt at making an efficient build tool. I put it on hold when I started investigating Gradle, which turned out to be very close in the underlying architecture, but it has some big limitations in how it was actually implemented. Indefinite hold.

Dead

Web Video Snip – took too much time to support with an ever-changing behavior from the YouTube flash application. That, and now some of the JavaScript used just doesn’t work anymore. The full-on website was here.

Antlion – an Ant build tool plugin that was intended to be a nice 3rd party management and large project handler. However, Ivy took off and made this project obsolete.

GroboUtils – a collection of various Java projects, housed under one confused roof.

Probably best “known” for the code coverage tool that became obsolete with JDK 1.5 due to the use of the underlying class bytecode library. Updating the tool would have required a major rewrite, and the availability of other coverage tools at the time lessened the need for me to continue this project.

There were a bunch of other utility classes that became obsolete by later versions of the JDK, that included similar behavior in new classes.

I now use it to as a backup for the source code to some of my experimental, personal projects.

Inform Wares – a collection of Inform (z-machine, ala Zork) language tools and packages I’ve written over the years. It was intended to be a warehouse for all the different inform source that other people have written, but it ended up that I wasn’t very good at getting people to use it.

Reading List

A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson)

Many others that I still need to compile.

Still Needs a Review

(I’ve limited this list to just those books I’ve completed on the train, which I started taking in April, 2013)

Collected Short Stories (Ray Bradbury)

A Scanner Darkly (Philip K.Dick)

The Philip K. Dick Reader

The Cult of Pythagoras

The Black Stallion

Deadeye Dick (Kurt Vonnegut)

Look at the Birdie (Kurt Vonnegut)

The Vampire’s Wife (A.S. Albrecht) 2nd time

Packing For Mars (Mary Roach)

Bonk (Mary Roach)

Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century Volume 1 (Wiliam H. Patterson, Jr)

Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century Volume 2 (Wiliam H. Patterson, Jr)